Was on a trip thru the desert SW recently, on I-10. Stopped over in Van Horn, TX - an overgrown truck stop of a town. At the Hampton Inn they had 8(!) parking spaces reserved for Tesla charging only. Eight Tesla charging stations in the middle of nowhere. All empty, of course. Empty again when we came through town going the other way a week later.
Got to figure Tesla is paying Hampton for those.
When people aren’t bitching about too few Superchargers, they are bitching about too many.
It probably is somehow funded by the taxpaying Citizen (tax write-off, grant or something fraudulent). It is true everywhere they have put these “charging” units. LOL.
“Eight Tesla charging stations in the middle of nowhere.”
As you correctly point out regarding Van Horn...even most cars have to stop there for fuel. If no place to charge the Tesla bricks, then no way for the bricks to get from El Paso to San Antonio, unless their owner brings 25 full-sized solar panels and lays them out for a full day (in summer)...LOL.
So it is needed, but my guess is that the first one cost X dollars, and then the next seven cost (together) cost less then than even the first one, so why not make it an ‘in your face moment’ to send a message to the planet-destroyers...doesn’t cost much more.
Robert Plant’s “Big Log” plays in the background as that scene plays out in my mind.